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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know where to start.  First.  There are 100 students enrolled per year in Blair SMACs.  That means that there are 400 science magnet students in total at Blair.  CAP typically has 75 students per year (300 in total) but I seem to remember that they might have increased the spots to 100 per year - I don't know for sure.  So there are at least 700 and potentially 800 students at Blair who are in SMAC magnet and in CAP.   The SMAC magnet admits students from 16 MCPS high schools.  The high school cluster that sends the most students is Wootton.  The middle school that sends the most students is Takoma Park (approximately half of the students in SMACs went to TPMS magnet) but that does not mean that the students who came from Takoma Park Magnet live in takoma park because it is a *magnet* middle school.  There is a strong representation of students from the Silver Spring area but I think there are actually more students from the Western part of the county (from Bethesda/Rockville. Potomac).  CAP is a DCC program but there are some students from outside of the DCC who are eligible to attend because they attended a DCC middle school.  So for example you have kids who live in Bethesda who went to the humanities magnet in Eastern who now attend CAP.
The non magnet classes are great .  It is a large school with a large number of high performing in bounds students from the neighborhoods around Blair.  My magnet child has received an excellent education in English and History in particular at Blair.  The teachers have been wonderful and the peer group (comprised of Magnet and neighborhood kids) has been wonderful.  Of course, my child has only taken AP and honors classes for these non Magnet classes but my point is that whether his non magnet classes have 2 Magnet kids or 15 Magnet kids, it does not matter too much the quality of instruction and of the peer group is wonderful.  Blair also has a very vibrant community - tons of clubs, and a highly engaged group of parents. The administration is also great.  In other words, it is a great school.  I personally like that my child gets a fantastic STEM education while still enjoying all the benefits of being in a diverse and academically rigorous public high school.

I don't know too much about how TJ compares.  It is larger and more homogeneous.  Blair magnet kids seem to do better ito test scores, college admissions and science competitions but I am not sure how much it matters if Blair has 43 Intel/Regeneron finalists over the last 20 years and TJ has 16 - we are really splitting hairs at this point!  [/quote]

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